• Bozo the Engineer (unregistered)

    Hey Ted, You could be fully buzzword compliant and make your management really super duper happy with the cost savings by just moving all those servers over to VMWare.

  • Jonathan (unregistered) in reply to Marc
    Marc:
    Darien H:

    How much does it cost to find out why your bridge just turned purple?

    The techinical answer would be "more money than can exist".

  • Steve (unregistered)

    Ted is missing a big opportunity. He could back up the logs say every 10 minites. Then he could have a nearly limitless storage requirement and an endless list of restore scenarios. This could lead to a staff growth that would result in a large salary increase.

  • Iff (unregistered) in reply to Welbog
    Welbog:
    Leo:
    And what if the power goes down citywide ? Katrina-like ? Tnen obviously the off-site backup can't be on the same state. I suggest they set up the first ever Moon backup facility. They'd be covered even in the case of Earth's complete obliteration by an asteroid!
    But what if the moon crashes into the Earth? What if the sun goes nova? You have to be covered, man!
    Now that is really easy, man. You just create databurst sent by radio waves. This gets away from the solar system fast enough to avoid any magnetic disturbance from that exploding star and lasts billions of years!
  • Avocado's Number (unregistered) in reply to Top Cod3r
    Top Cod3r:
    I keep a full source code backup in a separate filesystem partiton hourly. I also have a keychain with 8 usb drives attached to "backup the backup"

    Child's play. Sufficient for toy systems like yours, perhaps, so best of luck to you. If you have room in your Underoos for some hair, read on:

    We've innovated a much more efficient architecting, solutionizing the entire compute ecosystem, and not just so-called "data."

    Every 23 seconds, we use one processor core to "optically" scan the substrate of the other processor core, using on-die ultra-violated laser diodes. During the next clock cycle, the "first" core does the same to the second.

    Utilizing hyperthreading technology, this 3D image is then vector-mapped to a separate electrical state scan, performed by the 2nd thread in each core.

    For all you Omni Magazine reading, NOVA watching, fair-weather physicists out there, I'll make it simple: you now have a third database which not only contains a "snapshot" of the mission critical data, but a "topographical" map of the physical "brain" of THE SYSTEM ITSELF!

    This of course can easily be taped out as a series of masks for lithographic fabrication in any silicon foundry. Do the math.

    Until you can literally reproduce the database as it sits in a system at the transistor level, you're only left with a "carbon copy" of the database.

    If that's enough for you, great! No need to over engineer it. Good for you and your Pez dispenser collection... another Make A Wish Foundation success story.

  • The Commenter (unregistered)

    Captcha: AddyourCaptchaSoEveryoneKnowsWhatAFuckwitYouAre

  • Jared (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    Screw DBAs. They deserve to suffer. They only exist to prevent developers from getting work done.
    And of course developers only exist to completely screw up the data in a database after surreptitiously disabling all the table and column constraints because they can't figure out how to use SQL, and are to embarrassed to ask the DBA, who does know SQL.
  • SaltDryer (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    I say we should use a coal mine. Salt mines will dry out machines and cause drives and fans to fail earlier.

  • Nelle (unregistered) in reply to AJS
    AJS:
    Why did they use MS SQL Server for the backup? FCOL, even if someone's been stupid enough to specify that the main database has to be Microsoft, you can always use a proper one for the backup. You only need a very minimal subset of SQL (DELETE, SELECT, INSERT and DROP) to make or restore a backup.

    Use something like Postgres (for reliability) or MySQL (for speed) for the backup database server, even if the main one is still an old McSoft one. And then get working on ditching the rest of the Microsoft stuff system-wide!

    What about using Access or Excel for backups.

  • Simmo (unregistered) in reply to deadimp
    deadimp:
    Why do you people talk of data backup in space? That's just insane, completely improbable, redundant, and illogical. Instead, you can work with something better, and a little more viable. Why not invest a bit of money into time travel and just store the backups in the past? It's not that far away, maybe just a couple of steps in our 3rd dimension. Nothing happens there that already hasn't, so you're good unless you were screwed! Plus, since all future backups are now at one point in time, you no longer have to run your server, because everything's already happened... unless it didn't because you thought it did which caused it not to so it ended up not happening because it actually did.

    lol

    The last sentence makes my brain hurt

  • Pecos Bill (unregistered) in reply to Dennis
    Dennis:
    Just name the backup "Britney.Spears.Nude!!Great!!<date>.zip" and spread it via edonkey. Unless the whole internet breaks down, you will always have access to your backups!

    Bonus points if you forget to encrypt the backup first...

    Priceless! (Put a blowfish 1024b encrypt or somesuch on it and it would be secure enough. Problem is, if people don't see her, it would go directly to the trash.)

  • Nobody (unregistered)

    The real wtf is the fact that no one thought about building a nuclear power plant just to be sure that electrical failure won't be a problem.

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